Category Archives: Typo3

Noteworthy and tips about Typo3

Typo3: RTE in Backend not loading for Non-Admin-Users

Posted on April 4, 2013 by benjamin

Recently I found a nasty problem with Typo3′s richt text editor (RTE) when a non-admin user was logged in. (Typo3 version 4.5.25) Trying to open a content element with a rich text editor field, presented only the message “editor is … Continue reading →

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Powermail 2.0.x: Enable Dynamic Sender Fields

Posted on April 1, 2013 by benjamin

Starting with version 2.0, the powermail extension has a new concept to configure the email address used to send a feedback mail to the user who has submited an online form. The documentation recommends to activate the “This field contains … Continue reading →

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Typo3 Templavoila Multilanguage FCEs

Posted on March 18, 2013 by benjamin

The templavoilá template engine for Typo3 provides a feature named Flexible Content Elements (FCE) to build custom content elements for a website. FCEs are very usefull to provide additional structures, such as different multi-column layouts the editor can choose from. … Continue reading →

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Typo3: Powermail Configuring JQuery Datepicker

Posted on March 18, 2013 by benjamin

The powermail Typo3 extension for creating and managing forms provides a great integration with the jQuery JavaScript library. This includes the jQuery UI widgets especially the date picker widget. However, this makes use of the default jQuery settings and for … Continue reading →

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Typo3: CoolURI Multidomain Host Problem

Posted on February 22, 2013 by benjamin

If you are using the CoolURI extension for a Typo3 installation managing several websites with multidomain support, you might run into 404 error problems. This depends on your individual server configuration. Internally, cooluri reads the requested domain from the php … Continue reading →

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Typo3 tt_news Pagination with CoolURI

Posted on February 19, 2013 by benjamin

CoolUri is a nice typo3 extension for getting searchengine friendly URLs. It is configured by an xml file defining how to generate links and process incoming requests. If you use the tt_news extension to publish news on you site, cooluri … Continue reading →

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CoolURI and Typo3 6.0.2 Problem

Posted on February 15, 2013 by benjamin

After upgrading a typo3 installation to version 6.0.2 I noticed CoolURI did not work any longer. I always ended up with endless redirects (301) when trying to open a page. Disabling the redirect of old links to new ones in … Continue reading →

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Typo3 6.0.2 Update Extension List

Posted on February 15, 2013 by benjamin

Isn’t it a nice idea to hide an update button by changing it to link which isn’t even underlined? Definitely not! So if you have updated your Typo3 to version 6.x and miss the update button for your extension list, … Continue reading →

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Nivoslider Plugin in Typo3 6.0.2

Posted on February 15, 2013 by benjamin

Nivoslider is a nice extension to integrate an image slider in your Typo3 installation (http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/nivoslider) However, it has not been maintained since 2011 and is not compatible with the latest typo3 version. It makes use of a system function which … Continue reading →

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Typo3: Templavoila Reduce FCE Header Fields

Posted on November 2, 2012 by benjamin

Templavoila is one of the mature template engines for typo3. In addition to regular page templates, the extension provides so called flexible content elements to provide your custom types of page elements. They can be used to create boxes with … Continue reading →

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